Soule v. General Motors Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the consumer expectations test was not appropriate for a claim that a car was defective because the wheel assembly detached in accident
• observing that “if the expectations of the product’s limited group of ordinary consumers are beyond the lay experience common to all jurors, expert testimony on the limited subject of what the product’s actual consumers do expect may be proper”
• refining Barker test and holding that the “consumer expectations test is reserved for cases in which the everyday experience of the product’s users permits a conclusion that the product’s design violated minimum safety assumptions,” (emphases omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).